‘Migrant HMOs’ in Salford are under attack. But is everything as it seems?
How one city became the centre of a social media circus
Lucy McLaughlin
Lucy is an investigative reporter who cut her teeth in student journalism. She was previously an editor at The Tab, managing local teams across the UK.
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